Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	believe_v	receive_v	son_n	4,380	5	5.7638	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31367	Truths caracter of professors and their teachers which by looking through may bring to their remembrance the dayes of old, and how it was then with them, which may evidently shew unto them what hath befallen them since they degenerated from the measure of God, which some of them had in them, and it may also put them in mind of Gods justice and severity towards them ... / by William Caton.	Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing C1522; ESTC R24738	68,611	57

for him Do they continue for him to this very day I suppose nay h Are your engaged affections yet to his Government If so wherefore did you then so much rejoyce when you were brought under the power of another i when or how did you seek his preservation when he could not preserve you in your P●rsonage-houses glebe Lands and fa● Ben●fices did you not then withdraw from him like the rest of your Brethren Oh you de●eitful men k Had you said politick then many would have believed you For his policy was more apparent to many then his piety l Here your tongues have uttered falshood like the rest of your Brethren could he give life to you who could not preserve his own life from death And have you been without light and life since life and breath was taken from him Are you not ashamed of your sayings who set up that vain man in the room of Christ who onely gives Light and Life which is his gift unto the sons of men which it appeares you have not yet received who thus blasphemes m But in his dayes Religion came not to a perfect growth among you neither were the Liberties of Gods people in his dayes perfectly preserved by him from your cruelty n In few months after your Addre●●e to him he had many opposers and where did any of you either to the hazard of Life or Estare oppose any of them so your thus Addressing hath ●ended to the manifesting of your folly to the Nation o Your losse was tollerable for you while you retained your Tythe Sallaries and Augmentations which he and his Parliaments procured you p What did you then neglect your duty when you declined from him and encouraged and strengthned the hands of his enemies against him q In countenancing you in your making a prey upon the innocent he imitated his Father in that sin especially And therefore was not the Lord well pleased with his doings r Your faith he de●ended but a very little time Oh ye earthly-minded men where do you find that ever the Ministers of Christ Addressed to the powers of the earth as Defenders of the Faith for the defence of their faith Did not this custome get up in the Apostacy since the Apostles whose faith stood in the power of God And he who was the Authour and fi●isher of it was their Defender and Protector in it now were you in that faith which the Apostles were in then would you not Addresse and Petition to one power after another as your manner is in order for receiving and obtaining help from them ●or the procuring of your Tythe and other pr●fits which are looked upon to be your livelihood that you get by your trade of preac●ing And by them things you subsist and live rather then by faith by which the just do live s I suppose that was one of the clusters of Canaan which your brethren inHam●shire spoke of when they told of the good things good in their Account done by O. C. t That you might have your proportionable Revenues and that your number might be encreased in the Nation to the filling of every Par●onage-house and to the deceiving of unstable souls in every Masse-house for which they become more apt and in which they became more expert by being at that place which your Patriot as your brethren called him had founded then they were before u The fruit of many of those that have proceeded from such places as it and Oxford and Cambridge have been so detestable to many sober minded people that at this time I judge I need not particularly prescribe it it hath been so plenteously published to the Nation w What then was all that ever he did in the time of the late and deploreable warrs and after he came to be made Protector tell his d●ing day right just Lawful and unreproveable seeing you say his hand never miscarried but the same flattering tongue which will speak lies in hypocrisie is found in and among you which I have found all along among your brethren who like your selves could hold persons in ●dmiration because of advantage And that was one of your miscarrages among the many that is to be found in your Colledges the Fountains of the Waters of strife and among the filthy dreamers that proceed from them who who are like the raging Waves of the Sea that foam out their own shame as you and your brethren have done in these Addresses Iude 1. a Had you never payed it I judge he would never have called you to an account for it and I know that your shame will be the greater then it would have been if you had kept silent which might better have become you then thus to have uttered words without knowledge b Nay the Nations lamentation was not like Rachels who wept for her children and refused to be comforted because they were not for the most of the Addresses that came from sundry parts of the Nation did signifie the joy and comfort which the inhabitants pretend they had received by the news of his being proclaimed rightful successor And therefore did they sundry times declare that their sorrow was turned into joy c. c Have you not now more need to crave pardon for breaking your promise to him then you had to crave pardon of him for sending this no sooner to him d Yet it will add to your shame who Who have forged such a bundle of lies and falshoods in your Addresse what a debt is that that this can pay which is not worth a mite e I believe you very well in this thing that your desire is to go hand in hand with your Brethren in falshoods hypocrisie and vain deceit in cruelty persecution and oppression as witnesse your severe proceeding against the inhabitants of that County who have sustained as much cruelty and wickedness from you as any people in the Nation have done from your Brethren f It appears plainly that you have not like Iacob prevailed with God for which of you all dare say that he was blessed o● the Lord beyond all his Princely fellows and have you not contrary to your word let the Lord go and so have given over wrestling with him ●n his behalf the day is broken and the Light of the morning discovers you whither can you go or where can you hide your selves so as the Light will not find you out and manifest your folly and nakednesse to your shame as it is at this day g His time of defending you and your faith was very short but who shall now defend you from the shame and contempt which will come upon you and be as dung upon your faces yea so shall your blasphemies lyes and flatteries which your Addresses are stuft withall be upon you and your Brethren h This is rather exprest by you as your formality in your stile of writing then in the simplicitie and sinceritie of your hearts i This was because you would not be behind